Category: Walker Blaine

Margaret Blaine Damrosch and the Republican Party

TruxtunBealeBook Gretchen Blaine Damrosch Finletter, Harriet Blaine Beale, Margaret Blaine Damrosch, Walker Blaine, Walter Damrosch

I recently found and purchased an old book related to my research. Gretchen Blaine Damrosch Finletter was the daughter of Walter Damrosch, a famous composer, and Margaret Blaine Damrosch. Margaret was the daughter of James G. Blaine, former Secretary of State and Republican nominee for President in 1884, and also the sister of Harriet Blaine …

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Bar Harbor, Maine, 1889

TruxtunBealeBook Benjamin Harrison, Harriet Blaine Beale, Harriet Stanwood Blaine, Henry Cabot Lodge, James G. Blaine, Truxtun Beale, Walker Blaine

A purpose of this blog is to give me a space to write about topics that are not in my book (still in the works) but are related to it. There are many interesting stories about the families involved in late 19th-century American politics. I previously posted a copy of this photo from the Maine …

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